'Your actions are sickening': Sackler hearing inspires rare bipartisan disgust

Emerging from the shadows to address Purdue's role in the opioid crisis, David and Kathe Sackler misjudged the mood

If the idea was to burnish the image of what might be the most hated family in America, it didn't go well.

Little has been heard directly from those members of the Sackler family who owned and ran Purdue Pharma, the company that turned them into multibillionaires by selling the drug widely held responsible for creating the US opioid epidemic, OxyContin.